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  • I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

  • Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)

    Isaac Asimov (1989). “The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays”
  • Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

    Isaac Asimov (1989). “The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays”
  • Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

    Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books
  • To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

    "The 'Threat' of Creationism". www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.
  • Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.

  • When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

  • If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me a convert of mountain-moving fervor and that I shall suddenly grow long earlocks and learn Hebrew and go about denouncing the heathen - you little know the effect of the Bible on me. Properly read, it is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

    "Notes for a Memoir: On Isaac Asimov, Life, and Writing". Book by Janet Asimov, p. 58, 2006.
  • I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.

  • Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

    Free Inquiry Journal, Spring 1982.
  • I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No idea I've ever come up with has ever struck me as a divine revelation. Nothing I have ever observed leads me to think there is a God watching over me.

    Isaac Asimov (1992). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”
  • If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

    Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.481, Bantam
  • I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

    Free Inquiry Journal, Spring 1982.
  • I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

    Free Inquiry Journal, Spring 1982.
  • I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

    Life  
    "Philosophy on the Go". Book by Joey Green, p. 222, 2007.
  • One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the time since, and right now, powerful voices are always raised in favor of bigotry and thought control. It is useful, then, to have a compendium of the thoughts of great men and women of all faiths (and of none) on the subject, to convince us that we men and woman of freedom are not and never have been alone.

    Men  
  • Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

    Isaac Asimov (1992). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”
  • When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

    "The Relativity of Wrong". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1996.
  • When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it, just to find hope again, rather than looking to his own acts for hope and salvation. Yes, atheism IS a redemptive belief. It is theism that denies man's own redemptive nature.

    Men  
  • Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

    "Like Rolling Uphill: Realizing the Honesty of Atheism". Book by Dianna Narciso, 2004.
  • I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.

    Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.32, Bantam
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